The Almas: The Wild Men of the Altai and the Woman Called Zana
About 6 min readFor six hundred years, travellers in Central Asia have reported a wild man in the mountains — six feet tall, covered in reddish-brown hair, neither ape nor quite human. The almas is the oldest wild-man tradition in the world, and its most famous case, a captive woman named Zana, ended in a DNA test.